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April 11, 2025
The 2025 New Horizons in Physics Prize has been awarded to Jeongwan Haah for the discovery of Haah's code, in which fractal conservation laws emerge…
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February 19, 2025
The 2025 Galileo Galilei Medal has been awarded to Pierre Sikivie and Leonard Susskind, "for their work representing humanity's persistent…
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February 3, 2025
The Department of Physics at Stanford University seeks applicants for a junior or senior appointment at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor…
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January 28, 2025
The Infosys Prize 2024 in Physical Sciences is awarded to Professor Vedika Khemani for her groundbreaking contributions to theoretical and…
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September 30, 2024
Karl Schwarzschild first stumbled upon black holes in 1916, but for a long time they weren’t really a thing.
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May 31, 2024
The 2024 Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize was awarded to Andrei Linde for his outstanding research contributions in the field of cosmology.
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May 31, 2024
The 2024 Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture will be given by Renata Kallosh in the Oskar Klein Auditorium, AlbaNova.
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April 11, 2024
Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions. The theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind speaks…
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January 11, 2024
Dr. Racco's research during his SITP postdoctoral appointment has been awarded the Third Prize of the 2023 Buchalter Cosmology Prize.
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September 11, 2023
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of…

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August 8, 2023
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has awarded its 2023 Dirac Medal to four physicists who have made wide-ranging…

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August 2, 2023
Inside of a black hole, the two theoretical pillars of 20th-century physics appear to clash.